3. Applicability and Interchangeability

It's also worth noting that support for JTA 1.2 was introduced in Spring Framework 4.0. Thus, we can use the JTA Transactional annotation in Spring applications. However, the other way around is not possible since we can't use Spring annotations outside the Spring context.

4. Conclusion

In this tutorial, we discussed the differences between Transactional annotations from Spring and JTA, and when we can use one or another.